Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These records are divided between Confederate Paper an Union Papers. Confederate papers include items regarding the release of Tyre L. Harris, and underage conscriptee, 9 tax receipts from Charles Powell, 15 Registered Bonds of the Confederate States of America, the signature papers of a Treaty between the Confederate States and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation, and a newspaper article, dated June 9, 1864 regarding the Sloop...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Most of these documents pertain to the founding and settling of the Colony of Georgia. There is a most interesting letter with an account of the sea voyage of the "Anne" with General James Oglethorpe and 120 settlers for Georgia, including homely facts about health, food and activities of the passengers and their leaders. Another paper tells of General Oglethorpe's handling of attempted mutiny at St. Andrews Fort. Also...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Most of the papers deal with Gunn's service in Co. "F" of the 30th Wisconsin Volunteers. One item is a ledger-type book with records of some accounts, a journal kept on board the Steamer "Effie Deans" near Nebraska City, Nebraska, and a personal diary. Lorenzo Dow Gunn (n. d.) was a native of Iowa and there are certificates of his appointment and subsequent promotions in the "Wisconsin Volunteers." One unusual document is from...